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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the fete Dr. Urbino and Fermina attended devastated by?
(a) Torrential rain
(b) Winds
(c) Drought
(d) Hurricane

2. How do you think Dr. Urbino felt about Paris?
(a) Loved it
(b) Enjoyed it but did not care to return
(c) Liked it
(d) Did not like it

3. Why do Florentino's work and violin play suffer?
(a) Physical illness
(b) Rejection
(c) Lovesickness
(d) Laziness

4. Why was Dr. Urbino called to de Saint-Amour's home?
(a) To treat his wife
(b) To certify his death
(c) To play chess
(d) To treat him for an illness

5. What had Dr. Urbino's father introduced which helped to curb a large cholera epidemic?
(a) Public health measures
(b) Vaccinations
(c) Sewage treatment facilities
(d) Sanitized water

6. Where does Fermina Daza attend school?
(a) All girls school
(b) No school
(c) Private school
(d) Public school

7. Why had Florentino maintained his virginity even through his days at the brothel?
(a) His illness prevented him from taking a mate
(b) He was afraid of women
(c) He was saving himself for Fermina
(d) He was impotent

8. How many years earlier do the events in this chapter take place?
(a) 30 years
(b) 60 years
(c) 50 years
(d) 70 years

9. How many years pass between the rejection at the market place and Florentino's repeated vows upon the death of her husband?
(a) 49
(b) 51
(c) 50
(d) 55

10. What does Fermina return to Florentino with the note saying she will not marry him?
(a) Dried flowers
(b) All of his gifts
(c) Everything he had sent her
(d) All of his letters

11. What job does Florentino use to support himself when he first sees Fermina Daza?
(a) Riverboat trash collector
(b) Post office delivery
(c) Riverboat driver
(d) Post office master general

12. Which of the following is the best synonym for cosmopolitan as it is used to describe Paris?
(a) International
(b) Insular
(c) Sophisticated
(d) Mixed

13. What is Fermina's reply when Florentino finally proposes marriage?
(a) Very, well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant
(b) Very well, I will marry you if you promise me everlasting love
(c) Very well, I will marry you if you promise to be faithful
(d) Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggs

14. Which word best describes the recounting of the narrator in this novel?
(a) Dispassionate
(b) Biased
(c) Unfair
(d) Fiery

15. Which of the following is NOT a step that Dr. Juvenal Urbino takes to help stop the spread of cholera?
(a) Separate market place from the dump
(b) Covered sewers
(c) Quarantining suspected cholera patients
(d) Sewage treatment facilities

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Florentino in chapter one of this novel?

2. Why does Dr. Urbino feel offended by what de Saint-Amour leaves for him?

3. What "punishment" was inflicted upon Dr. Urbino during the argument over the soap in the bathroom?

4. What did de Saint-Amour leave for Dr. Urbino?

5. How old is Fermina when she returns from her trek?

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